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    Contributors Spring 2002 Paid Member

    Soko Morinaga Roshi, (“Dharma Talk”) was ordained as a Zen monk in Japan in 1948 and trained in the monastery at Daitokuji, eventually receiving the seal of dharma transmission from Sesso Ota Roshi. He died in 1995. An excerpt from the forthcoming English translation of his book, From Novice to Master, appears in this issue of Tricycle. Translator Belenda Yamakawa remarks: “I think parts of Morinaga’s book will be inspiring for people who are already practicing. But I also see it as a great introductory book - a “why practice” for people who are open but still need an explanation deeply rooted in experience and which still soundly appeals to reason!”More »
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    Contributors - Summer 2008 Paid Member

    TSULTRIM ALLIONE has been inspired by the teachings of the 11th-century female Tibetan teacher Machig Labdrön since the early seventies, when she was living as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in India. More »
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    Contributors Spring 2007 Paid Member

    Pankaj Mishra, whose essay "The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker" appears in this issue, tells us, "I grew up in India reading Western literature and philosophy, and nothing seemed to me to be more attractive than the life of the intellectual. I have lost that reverence and now wonder how intellectuals could have lent their services to violent ideological ventures. From the time I became interested in Buddhism I have wanted to write about this—not only how knowledge devoid of wisdom comes into being and then becomes institutionalized in government and media policy, but also how I, as a writer, can combine intellectual rigor and academic scholarship with a Buddhistic understanding of the interdependent nature of the globalized world." More »
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    Contributors Summer 2007 Paid Member

    PAGAN KENNEDY, whose article "Man-Made Monk" is in this issue, tells us : "Three years ago, I learned that a British aristocrat named Laura Dillon, who become Michael Dillon in 1943, was the first to undergo a female-to-male sex change. More »
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    Contributors Winter 2006 Paid Member

    CYNTHIA THATCHER describes her motivation for writing about the present moment in this issue's Dharma Talk ("What's So Great about Now?"): "It seems to me that the aim of mindfulness practice is sometimes misunderstood. Many of us expect a heightened sense of beauty or joy in daily life. More »
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    Contributors Fall 2003 Paid Member

    Dana Sawyer writes on author Aldous Huxley’s Buddhist proclivities in “Aldous Huxley’s Truth Beyond Tradition”. Sawyer tells us: “I first became interested in Buddhism and Hinduism in 1969, after a philosophy professor recommended that I read Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy. Recently, while writing a spiritual biography of Huxley, I was struck by how much of his particular approach to these religions has stayed with me over the years—even after seven years as a grad student in Asian religions and fifteen years of teaching. Specifically, his warnings against the spiritual materialism caused by confusing the path for the goal seem relevant and insightful to me. And his views on why direct experience must guide our search, written in 1945, sound as fresh as Joseph Goldstein’s One Dharma.” More »